covered the period of July 1970 to July 1971 although some have
claimed as early as 1969 but provide no sources.
-The original MIT-DMS (along with other historically important systems
-like AI, MC, anmd ML) were KA- and KL-10 based PDP-10 systems running
-the Incompatible Timesharing System (ITS.) When they were retired in
-1982, four KS-10 systems ("DECSYSTEM-2020") were put in their place in
-order to keep ITS running. These were retired from service around 1995.
-
-This mudman.git repository is named after the MUDMAN directory on
-MIT-DMS, which contained documentation about Muddle.
+MIT-DM (along with other historically important systems like AI, MC,
+and ML) were a group of PDP-10 computers running the Incompatible
+Timesharing System (ITS.) This mudman.git repository is named after
+the MUDMAN directory on DM, which contained documentation about
+Muddle.
-Many people have worked on Muddle in one aspect or other over the
+Many people have worked on Muddle in one aspect or other over the
years. These include (in alphabetical order by first name): Brian
Berkowitz, Bruce Daniels, Carl Hewitt, Chris Reeve, Dave Lebling,
-David Cressey, Gerald Sussman, Greg Pfister, Jim Michener, Joel Berez,
-Marc Blank, Michael Broos, Neal Ryan, Roger Banks, Stu Galley, Sue
-Pitkin, Tak To, Tim Anderson and others that will probably never be
-known.
+David Cressey, Edward Black, Gerald Sussman, Greg Pfister, Jack
+Haverty, Jim Michener, Joel Berez, Marc Blank, Michael Broos, Neal
+Ryan, Richard Shiffman, Roger Banks, Safwan Bengelloun, Stu Galley,
+Sue Pitkin, Tak To, Tim Anderson and others that will probably never
+be known.
This represents an effort to preseve information about the Muddle
programming language by migrating the documentation from aging books
concerns.
The documents in this repository, including this one, are made
-following the CommonMark specification: <http://commonmark.org/>.
+following Pandoc's extended version of Markdown:
+<http://pandoc.org/>.
-Converting them to other formats requires that cmark, which is the
-reference implementation of Commonmark in C from
-<https://github.com/jgm/cmark> or Pandoc from <http://pandoc.org/> or
-some other program that can understand CommonMark be installed on your
-system.
+Converting them to other formats requires that Pandoc or some other
+program that can understand this version of Markdown be installed on
+your system.
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